Visitors Logs

Help TPM Scour White House Visitors Logs

Christina Bellantoni | December 30, 2009, 6:36PM

Today the Obama administration released a monster document with more than 25,000 names of people who visited the White House - the first time any executive branch has given a full accounting of who is there and when.

It's the very first batch since the White House fully implemented its new transparency push, and covers from Sept. 16 through Sept. 30. There also was a limited release of people who came to the White House earlier in the year as requested by news organizations and open government groups.

(More details on that here.)

Some names pop out right away, while others are more obscure or were reported earlier this year when we wrote up the limited releases.

TPM could use your help scanning the visitors logs.

You can view the spreadsheet here at WhiteHouse.gov on the bottom of the page, but it is in a fairly unwieldy format. It's probably easiest to download as a CSV file and then import into a spreadsheet program for easy sorting.

If names jump out at you, please let us know. Pop the person's full name, date they visited and who they met with into the comments section below. You can also email us here, but please put Visitors Logs in the subject line.

Bloomberg has a good write up here and the Examiner details the lobbyists who were there.

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Visitors Logs

White House Releases Name Of Every Visitor For First Time Ever

Christina Bellantoni | December 30, 2009, 3:34PM

Fulfilling one of the transparency goals of President Obama's administration, the White House today released more than 25,000 records of visitors who came through the gates at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue this year.

Check out the names here, and TPMDC will update readers as we go through the names.

The spreadsheet posted at WhiteHouse.gov offers the visitor's full name, date of visit, who they met with and in what room. These records cover from Sept. 16 to Sept. 30, and the monthly visitors logs will be a regular release going forward.

There also are records of visitors who met with Vice President Joe Biden and his staff, but the system that collects the names is not in place yet for the vice president's residence at the Naval Observatory.

Vice President Joe Biden office released for the first time the names of visitors who have come to his residence at the Naval Observatory for official events. The office also is working with Secret Service to get the automated system that collects names of visitors in place at the residence.

Those records are marked with VPR on the data sheet.

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White House

White House: Look! We're Changing Washington!

Christina Bellantoni | December 4, 2009, 10:46AM

White House

The White House is pleased with a new Congressional Research Service report showing that since taking office in January, President Obama has made "historic" change to how lobbyists interact with the executive branch.

Norm Eisen, special counsel to the president for ethics and government reform, blogged today at WhiteHouse.gov a long item boasting about the report's findings.

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